Show GOVERNMENT i WILL AWAIT A W AIT REBEL A ATTACK IT ACK Chinese Imperialists Ap Aj Apparently Will Not T TaKe K Xe the Initiative PREMIER YUAN IS GIVEN NEW HONOR HONO Military Preparations Are Being Pushed Before Ex Expiration Ei- Ei of Armistice e. e Jan 23 2 The t The impe imperial aJ go gor goj haa ha n s d decided apparently t y- y yot riot not notto ot to t take e the initiative of leR t n nbattle a 1 battle with witti the revolutionary The he imperial generals la h nave have ve been ordered ordered or or- dered dosed to await tt the ady of the tho republican republican re re- re- re publican troops but military preparations lions are proceeding actively actively- through throughout gh out the northern p part rt of or China ChIn Premier Yuan Slit Shi RBi Kai ai c continues nt baTor In b- flavor avor aTor with with the court lie He WAS wu cre t tL a a.- a. marquis today today- and aM was WM noU notified e of or orthe the honor conferred upon him him- by Chun the regent ex-regent ex regent wh wile who Informed 1 In iA 1 formed formet him hint that the tho throne in in inthis this thin w way y to mark its appreciation of sf r his loyalty and aid labor in its interest 1 A responsible foreign n fin financier n ier h j ilu offered China a large lar e Joan for lor the p. p put put- pose pose in the first finst pl place ce of gf Pay paying payin D oI oil off the overdue v l' l ue loan o-n o coupons the Dalon baIan t remaining to be divided equally be be- between tween the tue imperial sto government and the 1 revolutionaries re both sides to accept full liability for fir the a advance imperial government agreed ag to accept t tho the offer which w was s then hub hub- b. b to to the revolutionary 1 lends lenders nd s who tersely replied that they did not rot want money DISTRIBUTION OF UNITED STATES TROOPS COMPETED MA iLA Tau Jan 25 The distribution D of the tho United States lates troops troop's along aloni the the- the lI section of the Pekin railroad fr from TaD Shan n to lies has now been beon on completed Major Majori Arrasmith rr who wh ho is js in command o ot th the athe com COst a tho n b i f and other h 8 today to bi G Fri l ort p J Pt PtA et station A According to ai i ire port Ala Lee LeeJ with with- forty forty- two men mel ia is stationed at t L Leich Liick Wang Weng Lf Lieutenant u Eugene Eugene- Tr Jr Lieutenant F Felix lIx K R lull Hill and LIeutenant Lieutenant Lieu LIeu- tenant t Blaine 4 A Dixon Bixon with with lct tv men at J Kuych u cb Lieu F. F M M. Miller Mill Uti er with m men men nr at at Lieutenant Lieu Lie Lieutenant tenant Ernest B. B Smaller with thirty men men men- menat at Kaiping and and- Lieutenants Olin O. O Ellis Ellia and Edgar Edar F. F Haines with th two forty men at Tang Shan Captain in Robert H. H Sillman who is in command of these detachments has has has' made his hs headquarters at The remainder i of of the troops are I quartered in barracks at Tien laIn Tain ANOTHER GUESS AT PROBABLE ARRANGEMENTS SHANGHAI Jan Jen Co Th il It It Itis is ig expected here in republican circles circles' ci s' s that tP an im ml imperial penal edict jb flis abdication of the throne will before belore the he armistice between ti imperialists ud republicans expires in 1 winch h snow a arranged ar sr- ranged will win be bo on pa on An 2 29 at 8 S o'clock iu in the m rt ttY after that dato date it is d will Trill willbe be arranged between arlit Yat Yet Son and Yuan YU Shi Kal ai sit which details will ivill be drafted lor br the of a iL t kind of coalition govern government ment controlling tb U and nd the h so south Tang ta g Shao Yi oj as aa Yuan Shi Kau Kaia Kais s 's representative T 8 hero berot and Dr Wu Tin Ting Fan Fang Abe he republican mi minister pi of justice e expressed esse t em selves Is this after afternoon extremely hopeful It is undu cid the negotiators atone tors who are endeavoring to bring bring- about bout an understanding between Pe PC- Pekin kin and b y hl ve succeeded inI in I I clearing the of the mis umi I under 1 au which have c hitherto bi b existed Whether an eventual arse- arse agree 1 i meat between en the tho two parti parties will b breached be reached cannot cannot be foreseen President Sun Yat Sn Sen today sent scat A s dispatch to J. J Premier YUi Shi Kai Kal at art pekin through Tang Shao Yi II The he het t t telegram is said aid io to o have haye or expressed willingness Is of the republican leaders to place plato the fullest confidence eon in Premier Pre mier mien Yuan Shi Kais Kai's pledges tO LONDON OON J Jan n 2 25 The The The concentration tion ion of or troops troops- in Pekin is proceeding rapidly A large number of ot imperial Manchu soldiers have hae arrived from the suburb of Fong Fenc Tai and also abo from T Cang n Chow according to a news nowa ag agea- agea n y y dispatch received b here r from frOnt Tien ThU fan The British military authorities have hae decided to tein orce the guard J of Brit Brit- ish ish- soldiers Rationed on the raUT railroad ad d at t Feng- Feng Tai Tat J f Chinese se Jan A 5 A A large number Dumb r of ot people were were killed and several hundred bundred d. d houses de destroyed troyed b by by- bya a terrific explosion oh i at t the powder magazine In iu the old city of f which hi h Ji lies lice s to tho the north orth of Sew New ew j |